Tag Archives: Cybercrime

It seems that these days Twitter passwords are worth even more on the black market than credit cards. This is according to Michael Callahan, who is a security expert and wrote about the subject on Juniper Networks.
At one time it...

It seems that there’s a movie in the works about Brian Krebs, a cybersecurity blogger and the man who broke the Target story, in which millions of credit card numbers were stolen.
Sony has purchased the rights to Reporting F...

Hackers, who are remaining unidentified at this point, claim that they have proof that Mt Gox has actually kept the bitcoins they claim to have lost in February.
Last month Mt Gox claimed that 744,408 bitcoins were stolen from th...

Patrick Rock, who is an advisor to UK Prime Minister David Cameron and the deputy director of policy, has resigned from his post on Monday because he was arrested in February for being in possession of child pornography.
Rock, wh...

Andrew Meldrum, who is from London, has been convicted for installing spyware onto the computers of three women and then using the women’s own webcams to spy on them.
Meldrum was found guilty on two counts of voyeurism and ...

Flexcoin, which was a bank for Bitcoins, has been forced to close after 896 of its Bitcoins, or $597,300 USD, at the time of this article’s writing, were stolen.
This marks yet another blow to those who have legitimate busi...

The newest incarnation of the Silk Road website has been hacked. Due to a flaw in the Bitcoin protocol, the site was robbed of 4,400 bitcoins, or roughly $2.6 million. Defcon, an anonymous administrator for Silk Road broke the ne...

Ross Ulbricht, who was arrested last year, could face a minimum of 20 years in prison.
For being involved with the Silk Road, Ulbricht is going up against a ‘kingpin’ charge, which carries a minimum sentence of 20 yea...

Charlie Shrem, the CEO of BitInstant, a bitcoin exchange, has been charged with supplying bitcoins to the Silk Road.
Shrem was apparently using his bitcoin exchange business as a front for a money laundering scheme, one that was ...

A man and woman in Britain have been given jail time for sending tweets that were of an abusive nature.
The two in question are John Nimmo, 25, and Isabella Sorley, 23. Their Twitter-hate campaign began as a response to the decis...

Hunter Moore has been arrested and charged on the federal level for allegedly paying someone to infiltrate hundreds of email accounts belonging to women.
Moore, who up until Thursday, when he was arrested, ran a website called Is...

Credit card information, as well as other personal details, has been stolen from 20 million South Koreans.
20 million is roughly 40% of South Korea’s population, and the data was stolen by one person, a man who was on contr...

It was revealed at the Chaos Computing Congress that there have been several attacks on European ATMs, in which thieves would cut holes into the machines and inserted their own USB drives, which allowed them to infect the machine...

Ross Ulbricht, who was arrested earlier in the year and is allegedly the man behind the website Silk Road, is demanding that $30 million in Bitcoins that were seized from him be returned.
When he was arrested in San Francisco, au...

Peter Clatworthy, a 19-year-old who lives in Billborough, which is near Nottingham, UK, spent £450 (roughly US$749.02) on an Xbox One. Or so he thought. Turns out, what he ended up buying was a picture of an Xbox One.
The ad for ...